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...Empire leans on geographic strong points. Knock down the buttress of Singapore, and the whole eastern wall of Empire falls. Knock out the Suez Canal, and British power in all the countries bordering the eastern Mediterranean collapses. Last week the enemy was clearly developing a huge strategy designed to flank Suez. It was hard to tell whether the super-parenthesis being formed through Libya and Egypt was stalled or just pausing; probably it was pausing to wait for the ripe hour. And on the other flank in Iraq, using the old Hitlerian devices of politics, fears, racial hatred, the enemy...
Tobruch, lying on the flank of Axis communications across the Libyan desert, had been held by a small British garrison ever since the initial German drive. Before the Axis attack on Egypt went any farther, it would be wise to try to knock...
...corollary of this was that Turkey's Aegean flank was bare. Turkey's Black Sea flank was also bare now that Germany controlled the entire length of the Danube. So giant pincers on Turkey (see map) seemed to be in the blueprints. It might be no more than political pincers, to make Turkey come to terms. After the Balkan fight, Turkey might be induced to give in. But if necessary, the great pincers might be used militarily...
...little more the new Government of Yugoslavia could do but prepare to face what came. But even if Hitler detached Croatia from Serbia, that would not get him at the Greeks. To reach them he would have to fight the Serbs in their own mountains or risk exposing his flank. Either course would be hazardous. At week's end Premier General Simovitch sternly demanded of his people that they stand fast and "if destiny so orders it, give their lives for the good of their homes, their fatherland and King...
...naval force had made a landing and captured Berbera, capital of British Somaliland. While this did not mean that all British Somaliland was again in British hands, it did mean that the column advancing on Harar was comparatively free to go ahead without fear of being hit on the flank. The Italians were expected to resist at Harar. If the British could break that resistance, they could probably go on to Addis Ababa without taking Cheren. But now they will have to hurry, for in about a month the dreadful Ethiopian rains...